Video Play Stops and Freezes

During play, the video freezes after several minutes. Not all videos are affected by this. Video podcasts and other videos downloaded from iTunes work more reliably. Videos I edited (I use Ulead VideoStudio 10 & 11 or Roxio Creator 9) are a problem and generally will not play. All the edited videos are rendered to the iPod setting in the program(s) and play perfectly in iTunes.
All the videos, regardless of their source, play perfectly on my two year old 60 gig 5th generation iPod.
From other postings, it appears that other iPod Classic owners are experiencing this problem.
Could this be a "firmware" problem that Apple will be able to resolve or is there a hardware problem in this 1st generation Classic?

I deleted all the video files from iTunes and sent them to the recycle bin. This did not delete the files from the the file folder located in My Documents/My Videos. Next, I went back to iTunes and added each video file into the Movies playlist.
After completing this for all my videos, every file played perfectly on my iPod Classic.
With this solution to my videos freezing while playing, I am completely satisfied with the new iPod. I plan to buy another Apple Dock for use in the car with the factory installed video player.

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iPod: Appears in Windows but not in iTunes
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1363
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